This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next 135 million years. This extinction was connected with massive volcanic eruptions caused by the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea. The ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs. Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

One of the worst days in the history of life on Earth started like any other. Herds of hadrosaurs with huge head crests and duck bills roamed ancient New Mexico for plants to eat, making sure not to ...

He said that the situation worked like a thermos designed to both keep liquids hot or cold for hours. After the infernos sparked by falling superheated rocks died out, the lingering atmospheric dust ...

The end, when it came, came suddenly. An asteroid or comet 10 kilometres across slammed into the Gulf of Mexico, gouging a 180-kilometre crater and unleashing firestorms, eruptions and mega-tsunamis ...

What did dinosaurs eat? Teeth provide important clues to understanding the ecology of dinosaurs, which became extinct ...

Two T. rex dinosaurs square up for a fight in an illustration. Dinosaurs in the Cretaceous were thriving until the Chicxulub asteroid initiated a mass extinction. Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library ...

The discovery of a "botanical Pompeii" has rewritten a long-held theory that flowering plants only flourished after the dinosaurs. The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million ...